Cheap Thrills follows Craig, a struggling family man who loses his low-wage job and is threatened with eviction. In an effort to delay facing the music at home, he heads to a local bar and encounters an old friend. The two friends are roped into a round of drinks by a charismatic and obscenely wealthy,increasingly twisted dares in exchange for money over the course of the evening, with each challenge upping the ante in both reward and boundaries.